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The author proves an equivalence of categories between certain modules of generalized Kac-Moody algebras and generalized Verma modules induced from representations of suitable para\-bolic subalgebras. The equivalence of categories allows many questions about representations of generalized Kac-Moody algebras to be reduced to those generated by the subalgebra, which in many cases can be taken to be much better-behaved. As an example, noted in the section on applications, for the Monster Lie algebra the subalgebra can be chosen to reduce the character formula for a highest weight module to computations from \(\mathfrak{sl}_2\) theory, so recovering Borcherds' product formula for the modular function \(j(\tau)\). The functors behind the equivalence of categories are simply induction and restriction and the techniques of proof in the main result are similar to those of \textit{B. Cox} [in: Modern trends in Lie algebra representation theory. Queen's Pap. Pure Appl. Math. 94, 35--47 (1994; Zbl 0818.17028)]